this was one of the main instances of ugly code duplication: all archs
use basically the same types of relocations, but roughly equivalent
logic was duplicated for each arch to account for the different naming
and numbering of relocation types and variation in whether REL or RELA
records are used.

as an added bonus, both REL and RELA are now supported on all archs,
regardless of which is used by the standard toolchain.